The Washington Post, July 26th, 1987
THE LIVES OF JEAN TOOMER A Hunger for Wholeness By Cynthia Earl Kerman And Richard Eldridge Louisiana State University Press 411 pp. $29.95 JEAN TOOMER (1894-1967) is known primarily for Cane (1923), a remarkable collection including a play, poems, and sketches of Afro-American life in rural Georgia, Washington, D.C., Chicago and New York. In Cane Toomer captured, with lyrical poetic grace and pictorial beauty, the rapidly dying world of rural southern blacks. He foresaw the harsh consequences and brutal realities awaiting them in concrete urban jungles and on mean city streets. In The Lives o...
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